A new paper published today (April 24) in the journal Nature by an international team of 279 scientists led by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew presents the most up-to-date understanding of the ...

Genome sequencing has transformed biology in the past three decades. The sequencing of the first eukaryotic genome, Saccharomyces cerevisiae 1, in 1996 was soon followed by the first animal and plant ...

We are at the beginning of a genomic revolution in which all known species are planned to be sequenced. Accessing such data for comparative analyses is crucial in this new age of data-driven biology.